Hertha Ayrton, 1854-1923, a MemoirE. Arnold, 1926 - 304 pages |
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Page 36 - It was often in her mind and on her lips that the only worthy end of all learning, of all science, of all life, in fact, is, that human beings should love one another better.
Page 36 - She was keenly anxious to redress injustices to women, and to raise their general status in the community. This, she thought, could best be effected by women improving their work — ceasing to be amateurs. But it was one of the most distinctly marked traits in her character that she particularly disliked everything generally associated with the idea of a "masculine woman.
Page 284 - The purpose of this organization shall be to promote understanding and friendship between the university women of the nations of the world, and thereby to further their interests and develop between their countries sympathy and mutual helpfulness.
Page 202 - ... Poynting, FRS Received December 7, 1907, —Read January 30, 1908.) [PLATES 4—6.] It is well known that when water moves in stationary waves, the particles do not, like pendulums, simply swing to and fro, returning after each oscillation to the points from which they started ; but that each element takes up a new position after each oscillation, so that it traces out a path for itself, only returning after many oscillations to its starting point. Part of this non-periodic or residual motion,...
Page 245 - And perhaps poetry and romance are as plentiful as ever in the world except for those phlegmatic natures who I suspect would in any age have regarded them as a dull form of erroneous thinking. They exist very easily in the same room with the microscope and even in railway carriages : what banishes them is the vacuum in gentlemen and lady passengers.
Page 139 - ... the PD is observable. (6) If air or oxygen is gently blown through the negative carbon, so that it cannot get direct to the crater, no diminution of the PD follows. Thus there can be no shadow of doubt...
Page 39 - Jewish extraction," as reported by Miss Blind, "expressed surprise at the amazement which her choice of a subject had created," and said : " I wrote about the Jews because I consider them a fine old race who have done great things for humanity. I feel the same admiration for them as I do for the Florentines.
Page 182 - Personally I do not agree with sex being brought into science at all. The idea of "women and science" is entirely irrelevant. Either a woman is a good scientist, or she is not; in any case she should be given opportunities, and her work should be studied from the scientific, not the sex, point of view.
Page 31 - June 20. — We went to the Crystal Palace to hear the " Messiah," and dined afterwards with the Brays and Sara Hennell. I told them I was the author of 'Adam Beds' and 'Clerical Scenes,' and they seemed overwhelmed with surprise. This experience has enlightened me a good deal as to the ignorance in which we all live of each other.